linux-toradex.git/kernel/fork.c, branch v5.10-rc6

fork: fix copy_process(CLONE_PARENT) race with the exiting ->real_parent

2020-11-08T19:18:39+00:00

current->group_leader->exit_signal may change during copy_process() if
current->real_parent exits.

Move the assignment inside tasklist_lock to avoid the race.

Signed-off-by: Eddy Wu 
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kernel/: fix repeated words in comments

2020-10-16T18:11:19+00:00

Fix multiple occurrences of duplicated words in kernel/.

Fix one typo/spello on the same line as a duplicate word.  Change one
instance of "the the" to "that the".  Otherwise just drop one of the
repeated words.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/98202fa6-8919-ef63-9efe-c0fad5ca7af1@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: use helper function put_write_access()

2020-10-16T18:11:19+00:00

In commit 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2"), the helper put_write_access()
came with the atomic_dec operation of the i_writecount field.  But it
forgot to use this helper in __vma_link_file() and dup_mmap().

Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200924115235.5111-1-linmiaohe@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'kernel-clone-v5.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux

2020-10-14T21:32:52+00:00

Pull kernel_clone() updates from Christian Brauner:
 "During the v5.9 merge window we reworked the process creation
  codepaths across multiple architectures. After this work we were only
  left with the _do_fork() helper based on the struct kernel_clone_args
  calling convention. As was pointed out _do_fork() isn't valid
  kernelese especially for a helper that isn't just static.

  This series removes the _do_fork() helper and introduces the new
  kernel_clone() helper. The process creation cleanup didn't change the
  name to something more reasonable mainly because _do_fork() was used
  in quite a few places. So sending this as a separate series seemed the
  better strategy.

  I originally intended to send this early in the v5.9 development cycle
  after the merge window had closed but given that this was touching
  quite a few places I decided to defer this until the v5.10 merge
  window"

* tag 'kernel-clone-v5.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux:
  sched: remove _do_fork()
  tracing: switch to kernel_clone()
  kgdbts: switch to kernel_clone()
  kprobes: switch to kernel_clone()
  x86: switch to kernel_clone()
  sparc: switch to kernel_clone()
  nios2: switch to kernel_clone()
  m68k: switch to kernel_clone()
  ia64: switch to kernel_clone()
  h8300: switch to kernel_clone()
  fork: introduce kernel_clone()

mm, oom_adj: don't loop through tasks in __set_oom_adj when not necessary

2020-10-14T01:38:35+00:00

Currently __set_oom_adj loops through all processes in the system to keep
oom_score_adj and oom_score_adj_min in sync between processes sharing
their mm.  This is done for any task with more that one mm_users, which
includes processes with multiple threads (sharing mm and signals).
However for such processes the loop is unnecessary because their signal
structure is shared as well.

Android updates oom_score_adj whenever a tasks changes its role
(background/foreground/...) or binds to/unbinds from a service, making it
more/less important.  Such operation can happen frequently.  We noticed
that updates to oom_score_adj became more expensive and after further
investigation found out that the patch mentioned in "Fixes" introduced a
regression.  Using Pixel 4 with a typical Android workload, write time to
oom_score_adj increased from ~3.57us to ~362us.  Moreover this regression
linearly depends on the number of multi-threaded processes running on the
system.

Mark the mm with a new MMF_MULTIPROCESS flag bit when task is created with
(CLONE_VM && !CLONE_THREAD && !CLONE_VFORK).  Change __set_oom_adj to use
MMF_MULTIPROCESS instead of mm_users to decide whether oom_score_adj
update should be synchronized between multiple processes.  To prevent
races between clone() and __set_oom_adj(), when oom_score_adj of the
process being cloned might be modified from userspace, we use
oom_adj_mutex.  Its scope is changed to global.

The combination of (CLONE_VM && !CLONE_THREAD) is rarely used except for
the case of vfork().  To prevent performance regressions of vfork(), we
skip taking oom_adj_mutex and setting MMF_MULTIPROCESS when CLONE_VFORK is
specified.  Clearing the MMF_MULTIPROCESS flag (when the last process
sharing the mm exits) is left out of this patch to keep it simple and
because it is believed that this threading model is rare.  Should there
ever be a need for optimizing that case as well, it can be done by hooking
into the exit path, likely following the mm_update_next_owner pattern.

With the combination of (CLONE_VM && !CLONE_THREAD && !CLONE_VFORK) being
quite rare, the regression is gone after the change is applied.

[surenb@google.com: v3]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200902012558.2335613-1-surenb@google.com

Fixes: 44a70adec910 ("mm, oom_adj: make sure processes sharing mm have same view of oom_score_adj")
Reported-by: Tim Murray 
Suggested-by: Michal Hocko 
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Acked-by: Christian Brauner 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Eugene Syromiatnikov 
Cc: Christian Kellner 
Cc: Adrian Reber 
Cc: Shakeel Butt 
Cc: Aleksa Sarai 
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan 
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Cc: Alexey Gladkov 
Cc: Michel Lespinasse 
Cc: Daniel Jordan 
Cc: Andrei Vagin 
Cc: Bernd Edlinger 
Cc: John Johansen 
Cc: Yafang Shao 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200824153036.3201505-1-surenb@google.com
Debugged-by: Minchan Kim 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: remove src/dst mm parameter in copy_page_range()

2020-10-14T01:38:32+00:00

Both of the mm pointers are not needed after commit 7a4830c380f3
("mm/fork: Pass new vma pointer into copy_page_range()").

Jason Gunthorpe also reported that the ordering of copy_page_range() is
odd.  Since working at it, reorder the parameters to be logical, by (1)
always put the dst_* fields to be before src_* fields, and (2) keep the
same type of parameters together.

[peterx@redhat.com: further reorder some parameters and line format, per Jason]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201002192647.7161-1-peterx@redhat.com
[peterx@redhat.com: fix warnings]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201006200138.GA6026@xz-x1

Reported-by: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe 
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200930204950.6668-1-peterx@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: use helper function mapping_allow_writable()

2020-10-14T01:38:31+00:00

Commit 4bb5f5d9395b ("mm: allow drivers to prevent new writable mappings")
changed i_mmap_writable from unsigned int to atomic_t and add the helper
function mapping_allow_writable() to atomic_inc i_mmap_writable.  But it
forgot to use this helper function in dup_mmap() and __vma_link_file().

Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Christian Brauner 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Cc: Christian Kellner 
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan 
Cc: Adrian Reber 
Cc: Shakeel Butt 
Cc: Aleksa Sarai 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200917112736.7789-1-linmiaohe@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

io_uring: don't rely on weak ->files references

2020-10-01T02:32:32+00:00

Grab actual references to the files_struct. To avoid circular references
issues due to this, we add a per-task note that keeps track of what
io_uring contexts a task has used. When the tasks execs or exits its
assigned files, we cancel requests based on this tracking.

With that, we can grab proper references to the files table, and no
longer need to rely on stashing away ring_fd and ring_file to check
if the ring_fd may have been closed.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.5+
Reviewed-by: Pavel Begunkov 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

mm/fork: Pass new vma pointer into copy_page_range()

2020-09-27T18:21:35+00:00

This prepares for the future work to trigger early cow on pinned pages
during fork().

No functional change intended.

Signed-off-by: Peter Xu 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: Introduce mm_struct.has_pinned

2020-09-27T18:21:35+00:00

(Commit message majorly collected from Jason Gunthorpe)

Reduce the chance of false positive from page_maybe_dma_pinned() by
keeping track if the mm_struct has ever been used with pin_user_pages().
This allows cases that might drive up the page ref_count to avoid any
penalty from handling dma_pinned pages.

Future work is planned, to provide a more sophisticated solution, likely
to turn it into a real counter.  For now, make it atomic_t but use it as
a boolean for simplicity.

Suggested-by: Jason Gunthorpe 
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds